Hi! My name is Lotta and I am a Physics PhD student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, "the most beautiful place to study Physics on earth". So far, I have studied Physics in Göttingen, Germany, where I finished my Bachelor's degree.
Now I'd like to share my experiences during my time abroad with you. Have fun!

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2016/10/10

Oooops... I accumulated somuch stuff during one single year! There's craigslist which is an online portal where you can basically sell anything, but I didn't have time for that, so I just posted things on facebook and I got rid of it super easily. The donation box for clothes in Isla Vista is "open-air" (there is no roof! It's not a container, it's just a box) which confused me at first, but I dropped of some items. Fortunately, I managed to take all my books home to Germany (but they're heavy; maybe it's a good advice to try to buy books you don't need asap in your home country when you come back).It's also important to hand on your research knowledge to your colleagues - thus, I trained a colleague for a day which was completely new to me because I had always been the one being instructed. But, our experiment and the hand-over went very well!

As I didn't want to spend my last minute in Santa Barbara in lab, I went goodbye-kayaking: